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The wheels continue to fall off the Wegman Report. “It kind of undermines the credibility of your work criticizing others’ integrity when you don’t conform to the basic rules of scholarship,” Virginia Tech plagiarism expert Skip Garner says. Further down:

Readers here are probably already familiar with the Wegman report “strange scholarship” scandal but if not read up on it a bit at Eli Rabbet’s place. The mess goes much deeper, but the relevant aspect is an ongoing plagarism investigation into Wegman by George Mason University. The GMU investigation was pushed forward by a formal…

It seems that substantial evidence compiled by John Mashey has helped lead to an investigation into Edward Wegman’s possible academic misconduct in the production of his very prominent report to Congress [PDF] on the Hockeystick. See DesmogBlog for background, USA Today for the story, and Deep Climate for the details.